Troubleshooting Oracle Performance, Second Edition

Table of contents

1. Title Page
2. Dedication
3. About IOUG Press
4. Contents at a Glance
5. Contents
6. Foreword by Jonathan Lewis
7. Foreword by Cary Millsap
8. Foreword from the First Edition
9. About the Author
10. About the Technical Reviewers
11. Acknowledgments
12. Acknowledgments from the First Edition
13. Introduction
14. PART I: Foundations
    1. CHAPTER 1: Performance Problems
       1. Do You Need to Plan Performance?
       2. Designing for Performance
       3. Do You Have Performance Problems?
       4. How Do You Approach Performance Problems?
       5. On to Chapter 2
    2. CHAPTER 2: Key Concepts
       1. Selectivity and Cardinality
       2. What Is a Cursor?
       3. Life Cycle of a Cursor
       4. How Parsing Works
       5. Reading and Writing Blocks
       6. Instrumentation
       7. On to Part 2
15. PART II: Identification
    1. CHAPTER 3: Analysis of Reproducible Problems
       1. Tracing Database Calls
       2. Profiling PL/SQL Code
       3. On to Chapter 4
    2. CHAPTER 4: Real-Time Analysis of Irreproducible Problems
       1. Analysis Roadmap
       2. Dynamic Performance Views
       3. Analysis With Diagnostics and Tuning Pack
       4. Analysis Without Diagnostics Pack
       5. On to Chapter 5
    3. CHAPTER 5: Postmortem Analysis of Irreproducible Problems
       1. Repositories
       2. Automatic Workload Repository
       3. Statspack
       4. Analysis With Diagnostics Pack
       5. Analysis Without Diagnostics Pack
       6. On to Part 3
16. PART III: Query Optimizer
    1. CHAPTER 6: Introducing the Query Optimizer
       1. Fundamentals
       2. Architecture
       3. Query Transformations
       4. On to Chapter 7
    2. CHAPTER 7: System Statistics
       1. The dbms_stats Package
       2. What System Statistics Are Available?
       3. Gathering System Statistics
       4. Restoring System Statistics
       5. Working with a Backup Table
       6. Logging of Management Operations
       7. Impact on the Query Optimizer
       8. On to Chapter 8
    3. CHAPTER 8: Object Statistics
       1. The dbms_stats Package
       2. What Object Statistics Are Available?
       3. Gathering Object Statistics
       4. Configuring the dbms_stats Package
       5. Working with Global Temporary Tables
       6. Working with Pending Object Statistics
       7. Working with Partitioned Objects
       8. Scheduling Object Statistics Gathering
       9. Restoring Object Statistics
       10. Locking Object Statistics
       11. Comparing Object Statistics
       12. Deleting Object Statistics
       13. Exporting, Importing, Getting, and Setting Object Statistics
       14. Logging of Management Operations
       15. Strategies for Keeping Object Statistics Up-to-Date
       16. On to Chapter 9
    4. CHAPTER 9: Configuring the Query Optimizer
       1. To Configure or Not to Configure
       2. Configuration Road Map
       3. Set the Right Parameter!
       4. On to Chapter 10
    5. CHAPTER 10: Execution Plans
       1. Obtaining Execution Plans
       2. The dbms_xplan Package
       3. Interpreting Execution Plans
       4. Recognizing Inefficient Execution Plans
       5. On to Part 4
17. PART IV: Optimization
    1. CHAPTER 11: SQL Optimization Techniques
       1. Altering the Access Structures
       2. Altering the SQL Statement
       3. Hints
       4. Altering the Execution Environment
       5. Stored Outlines
       6. SQL Profiles
       7. SQL Plan Management
       8. On to Chapter 12
    2. CHAPTER 12: Parsing
       1. Identifying Parsing Problems
       2. Solving Parsing Problems
       3. Working Around Parsing Problems
       4. Using Application Programming Interfaces
       5. On to Chapter 13
    3. CHAPTER 13: Optimizing Data Access
       1. Identifying Suboptimal Access Paths
       2. SQL Statements with Weak Selectivity
       3. SQL Statements with Strong Selectivity
       4. On to Chapter 14
    4. CHAPTER 14: Optimizing Joins
       1. Definitions
       2. Nested Loops Joins
       3. Merge Joins
       4. Hash Joins
       5. Outer Joins
       6. Choosing the Join Method
       7. Partition-wise Joins
       8. Star Transformation
       9. On to Chapter 15
    5. CHAPTER 15: Beyond Data Access and Join Optimization
       1. Materialized View
       2. Result Caching
       3. Parallel Processing
       4. Direct-Path Insert
       5. Row Prefetching
       6. Array Interface
       7. On to Chapter 16
    6. CHAPTER 16: Optimizing the Physical Design
       1. Optimal Column Order
       2. Optimal Datatype
       3. Row Migration and Row Chaining
       4. Block Contention
       5. Data Compression
18. PART V: Appendix
19. Bibliography
20. Index